The Women Who Shaped Texas TechBeginning in 2014, the University Archives sponsors a "Women
Who Shaped Texas Tech" exhibit as part of Women's History Month, which is
celebrated each March. The women selected for the exhibit meet 2-3 of the following criteria: 1) they qualify as either a "groundbreaker"
and/or a "first"
in Texas Tech history, 2) they have a long-lasting legacy at the university
[Many often have a long-lasting legacy in
their community as well], and 3) they are documented in the holdings of the
University Archives either in the form of photographs, manuscript
collection(s), A/V collections such as oral histories, reference files
and/or faculty files.

Faye LaVerne Bumpass graduated Lubbock High School as valedictorian in 1927 and received her bachelor’s degree in 1932 and her
master’s degree in 1934, both from Texas Technological College. Between the years of 1932-1941 Faye taught Latin and Spanish
in Texas high schools and served as a visiting instructor in Spanish during the summer at Texas Tech. She extensively traveled
Latin America between the years of 1945-1951, working as a teacher of Latin and English as a second language in Lima, Peru.
In 1948, she completed her Doctor of Letters degree from San Marcos University.

Beginning in 1957, Faye served as an assistant professor in both English and Foreign Languages.
Her broad teaching experience would come in handy as she wrote several textbooks on bilingual education. Her testimony
before Congress in May of 1967 on bilingual education was the only one selected for publication in the Congressional Record
proceedings (Vol. 113 No. 81). In 1969, she became one of two women to acquire the high rank of Horn Professor,
a rank previously only held by male professors. She continued to teach as a tenured faculty member at Texas Tech until 1974.

Related collections within the University Archives and the Southwest Collection holdings:
Faye LaVerne Bumpass Reference File
Faye Bumpass faculty file, 1941-1978Homage to Faye LaVerne Bumpass. Third annual Gaye LaVerne Bumpass lecture papers.
Dept. of Classical and Romance Languages and
the Latin American Area Studies Program at Texas Tech University, 1981.

Born in Cleburne, Texas, Beatrix Aldrena Cobb received her Ph.D. from the University
of Texas and worked with
M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston. In 1958, she joined the faculty of the psychology department at Texas Tech University.
Cobb’s work with special problems in rehabilitation led to her promotion as Director of Research and Training in Mental
Retardation. She wrote and edited textbooks on rehabilitation and royalties from two of those books, which were sold in
the campus bookstore, were donated to a scholarship fund named after her. Some of her university related activities
included being a sponsor for Mortar Board, serving on the 1971 Student Publications Committee and being named Faculty
Woman of the Year in 1962 by the Association of Women Students. Cobb also holds the distinction of being one of the
first two women to achieve the rank of Horn Professor, the highest academic rank of a professor at Texas Tech.
She passed away in 1990.

Related collections within the University Archives and the Southwest Collection holdings:
Beatrix Cobb Reference File
Beatrix A Cobb. et al. "Psychology at Texas Tech University: Legacy and Legend, a Chronicle of the Origin and
Development of the Department of Psychology, 1925-1987," Texas Tech Press, 1988.

Stella Ruth Courtney Crockett was born on October 4, 1943, in Lubbock, Texas, and attended Dunbar High School where she was a member of the band.
In the summer of 1961, after learning that Texas Tech would integrate, Stella was among a very small group of African Americans who decided to attend
Texas Tech and together they formed a kind of support system for each other. Having turned down a band scholarship elsewhere Stella continued her
musical training by joining the Texas Tech marching band, then lead by Dean Killion.

It was not an easy task to be among the first to break a long held barrier. Stella had to enroll in another section of a
class because the first instructor used disparaging language toward her. Support from her family, church and community helped her stay on course
and she pointed to her mother’s encouraging words of “sticking it out” as a motivator. “It’s my right to be here. I deserve an education and
I’m going to get it,” she recalled in her March 3, 2010 oral history interview.

Influenced by strong mentors Stella knew from the 2nd grade she wanted to be a teacher. In May of 1965 she earned her bachelor’s degree
in Elementary Education and thus became the first African American to attend Lubbock schools from K-12, attend all undergraduate years at
Texas Tech and successfully graduate. Crockett retired in June of 2009 after 43 years of teaching.

Having turned down a band scholarship elsewhere, Stella continued her musical training by becoming one of 15 African Americans
to join the Texas Tech marching band.

One story shared about the band's integration years appears in the book Remember When? A History of African Americans in Lubbock, Texas.
"...We were to march in the Cotton Bowl for the game and spend the night," recalled Stella's band mate Jean Nichols. "The only problem was that the Cotton
Bowl had some rule about blacks on its playing field. None of the band members thought much about it until we were told that our black members could not march.
As a drum section we informed Mr. Killion that if our black drummers could not go and march then we all would stay home… This was not done to make a statement
but truly out of friendship and respect. As a group (the entire band) and especially the drum section, we made sure there were no back doors and no eating
in the kitchen. Where we went our friends went." Dean Killion, then Band Director, made sure that his entire band was able to perform together.

Related collections within the University Archives and the Southwest Collection holdings:
Stella Courtney Crockett oral history interview [sound recording], 2010

Hortense Williams Dixon holds the distinction of being the first African-American to graduate from Texas Tech
with a doctorate degree. The chairman for her doctoral advisory committee, Dr. Berlie J. Fallon, described her academic work as being outstanding.
"Her defense of the doctoral dissertation was one of the most masterful I have ever attended in my fifteen years at Texas Tech."

She was born on January 29, 1926, in Houston, Texas. Dixon attended several universities to acquire the appropriate degrees
in higher education. She received her B.S. degree from Prairie View State College in 1946, a M.S. degree in 1949 from the University of Minnesota,
and a Ed.D. degree from Texas Tech in 1970. Her degrees were in the area of education with a minor in home economics. While pursuing her studies
she also held several academic positions, including Director of the Home Management Residence at Bishop College, Assistant Professor of
Home Economics Education at Texas Southern University, and Part-time Instructor in Home Economics Education at Texas Tech University.
After graduating from Texas Tech, Dixon returned to Houston to continue serving as an Associate Professor in home economics at Texas Southern University.

Related collections within the University Archives and the Southwest Collection holdings:
Hortense Williams Dixon Collection, 1970

Mary Woodward Doak was born on February 15, 1877, on the Bar Bona Ranch in Live Oak County, Texas.
She received her B.A. in English and government from the University of Texas in 1925 and her M.A. in English and
sociology in 1929 from Texas Technological College, where from 1925-1945 Doak served as Dean of Women and a professor
in the English Department. She continued to teach in English from 1945-1949 until her retirement in 1950.

During her tenure she was very active in promoting women’s education. She organized the Tech chapter
of the Association of Women Students in 1929, and worked to establish the Council of Women Graduates in 1927 which
helped the Lubbock chapter of the American Association of University Women become officially affiliated with the
national association in 1949. The Forum, an honorary service organization for senior female students was established
in 1937 largely due to her efforts. In cooperation with Margaret Weeks, Dean of Home Economics, she inaugurated the
Women’s Recognition Service in 1932 which continued until 1947 with sponsorship from the Quarterly Club and the
Association of Women Students. The first women’s dormitory on the Texas Tech campus, built in 1934, continues to bears
her name. Additionally, a scholarship was set up under her name by the Lubbock chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma.

Born on July 5, 1917, in Lockney, Texas, Maxine Fry was a noted beauty who enrolled in Texas
Tech in 1934 to study journalism. An active participant in campus life Fry was a member of The Forum (later renamed
Mortar Board), President of the Las Chaparitas sorority (later renamed Kappa Kappa Gamma), an occasional reporter for
the Toreador newspaper, and winner of several school beauty contests including being named a 1938 Sun Bowl Princess. In
May of 1937 she became the first elected female president of the Student Council, an achievement that neither UT nor
Texas A&M’s female students could reach until 1975 and 1994.

Under her leadership, and with the help of classmate Arch Lamb and the Saddle Tramps, Fry was able to successfully
reinstate the school’s bonfire tradition. They had been banned by school administrators following outrage by Lubbock
citizens over vandalism and theft of wood by Tech students. Her administration also wrote a revision of the Student
Council’s constitution. After graduation she married Hugh McCullough, who had been her Vice-President when she was
student body President, and the couple had two children during their 50 plus year union. Fry went on to teach journalism
for two years in Littlefield and Grandfalls, worked on The Midlander Magazine its first seven years in publication, and
was a charter member of the Midland Symphony Guild.

Related collections within the University Archives and the Southwest Collection holdings:
Maxine Fry Scrapbook, 1937-1940

Born in 1949
in San Angelo, Texas, Tina Fuentes knew from a young age that art was her calling. She, accordingly, channeled
her passion, strength, and understanding of the fundamentals of composition, perspective, and color into a becoming a
nationally recognized multi-media artist. She earned a B.F.A. degree in 1973 and an M.F.A. degree in 1975 from North
Texas State University. Tina specializes in the areas of painting, drawing and printmaking. Since 1982, her work has been
featured in a large number of one-woman and multi-artist exhibitions, as well as a documentary film, El Arte de Tina Fuentes,
that was broadcast on PBS.

Her versatility and driven mentality has resulted in her being selected as an exhibition juror and being
appointed to several arts organization boards and programs. She has received several artist-in-residence awards,
faculty awards, and research grants, with the most recent being a sizable National Science Foundation collaborative grant
with Atmospheric Science Professor Eric Bruning. Tina also shares her love of art with students through a long and
productive teaching career that began in 1972 in the Abilene Independent School District and continues into 2017 at Texas Tech,
where she is a tenured professor in the School of Art.

Edna Maynard Gott was born on March 19, 1920, in Chandler, Texas. After receiving her B.S. degree in
Economics from the University of Texas in 1942 and her M.S. degree from Texas Technological College in 1954, she began her
teaching career as an instructor in Economics at Texas Technological College. For more than a decade she battled with the
department and university administration for equality in teaching rank, promotion and tenure. In the spring of 1973 she
was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor. Nine years later, Gott became the first women to achieve tenure in the
Department of Economics.

Her work focused on the economic status and challenges facing women and minorities. To advance the cause for
women’s rights she unmasked the inequities towards female faculty in academia and was the coordinator of the Lubbock Chapter of
the National Organization of Women. Gott was also an active member of the International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land
Studies where she served on the Women in Development committee and was a founding member of the Women’s Study Program.

Gott was involved with a variety of academic and professional organizations, serving on several boards.
She was the faculty advisor to Phi Gamma Nu and four-term Vice-President of the American Association of University Professors.
In 1983 she received the Outstanding Teaching Award by Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa. Edna Maynard Gott passed away
in 1986. Her legacy lives on through the Florence Brown En Avant Club Scholarship and the Edna Maynard Scott Memorial
Library.

Mrs. Lucille S. Graves is noted in her
oral history interview, conducted in 1974 by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, as being the
first African American student at Texas Tech. She came to Tech with a bachelor’s degree and was working on her master’s
degree in the summer of 1961. It was Mrs. Graves’ persistent petitioning for entrance into the college that paved the way for
other African Americans to attend Texas Tech.

Her 10 minute interview discusses how, when repeatedly refused entrance into the college on the grounds
that the its charter,
Senate Bill No. 103, specifically outlines that Texas Tech is a college for white students, she in turn sought
the help of the NAACP. Robert Cabiness Goodwin, President of Texas Tech, was contacted by the NAACP and
was told a lawsuit would be filed if Texas Tech did not allow Mrs. Graves to attend.

Mrs. Graves shared her excitement at getting a call from Texas Tech President Goodwin, who told her
that if she could get to the college within 15 minutes before registration shut down she would be able to enroll. She
was so nervous she had to get a neighbor to drive her and, despite forgetting her transcripts, she did indeed make it to
the college to enroll within the time limit.

Her quiet enrollment led to a peaceful, non-violent integration of the traditionally white college.
In her oral history interview, Mrs. Graves harbored no ill-will toward the college nor its administration against
their initial refusals to allow her attend. Her determination to gain the additional education she so desperately
wanted shines through and perhaps it was because of this and her strength of character that she was able to achieve
her goals in life.

The book, Remember When?: A History of African Americans in Lubbock, Texas, provides a
more detailed biography of trail blazer Lucille Sugar Graves. Besides breaking the race barrier at Texas Tech, Mrs. Graves
was also the founder of Mary and Mac, the first black private school in Lubbock, Texas, on September 17, 1955.
She chose the name of her school after the children’s nursery rhyme on the reasoning that “This poem depicts
the act of boys and girls in their desire to become useful in this society.”

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in home economics from Louisiana Tech University in 1966,
Elizabeth G. “Bess” Haley attended Florida State University, from which she received a master’s degree in clothing
and textiles (1968) and a doctoral degree in child development (1972). Prior to coming to Texas Tech, she served
as the dean of home economics at Louisiana Tech University for sixteen years.

The selection of Haley in 1981 as incoming dean marked a new era of revitalization for the College
of Home Economics. Under her leadership, the college was renamed Human Sciences, student enrollment and faculty
research increased, and programs were established for Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management (RHIM),
family financial planning, and substance abuse studies. Notable increases in student scholarships, college endowments
and alumni relations during the 1980s-1990s are also attributed to Haley

In 1988, Haley became the first woman to take over full presidential administrative
duties who also had the full academic credentials for such a high-level university position. When asked about being
the first woman to cross that barrier, she replied, “I feel it is important for women faculty members and women
students at Texas Tech. But I feel both men and women can serve effectively in a wide variety of jobs.” (Jim Barlow
and Pat Graves, “Tech Regents Name Haley to Post: Home Economics Dean Selected as Interim President,”
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, November 14, 1988)

She has served as president of both the National Council of Administrators of
Home Economics and the American Home Economics Association, which selected her as one of the nation’s
top ten “Home Economics to Watch” in 1985. A student scholarship at Texas Tech is named in Haley’s honor.
As of 2018, Haley is the only woman at Texas Tech to serve as a professor, a dean, an interim-president,
and a deputy chancellor for operations

Anita Carmona Harrison was born on February 17, 1944, in the Guadalupe neighborhood of Lubbock, Texas.
Following a tour of the Texas Tech campus with her second grade teacher, Mrs. Billie Everton, young Anita decided she wanted to
attend and started a piggy bank fund. In the fall of 1963 she enrolled at Texas Tech, where she worked in the library, tutored
geology students and made the Dean’s List. Of her college years she fondly recalls “meeting people from diverse backgrounds,”
hanging out with friends in the SUB, and being taught once again by Dr. Everton, who had by now become a professor at
Texas Tech.

In 1967 she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education, went on to teach
bilingual kindergarten classes and, in 1969, helped develop Lubbock ISD’s first Curriculum Guide for Bilingual Kindergarten.
She continued to teach elementary school while raising two daughters and, in 1999, she retired from LISD after almost
30 years from public teaching.

Anita is recognized as the first Lubbock-born Latina to attend Lubbock schools from K-12, attend
all undergraduate years at Texas Tech and successfully graduate. She grew up in a very tight knit family and has proudly
shared stories of her childhood, family and community over the years with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and Latino Lubbock
magazine. She continued to contribute to her community through volunteer work at Covenant SurgiCenter, Hope House,
and serving on the city’s library board.

Related collections within the University Archives and the Southwest Collection holdings:

Hailing from Pampa, Texas, Mary Jane Johnson graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music in
1972 from Texas Tech University, where she was recognized as a standout vocalist, and then received her master’s degree
in performance from West Texas State University. Selected by famed opera star Luciano Pavarotti as one of 16 winners
in the inaugural Luciano Pavarotti/Opera Company of Philadelphia International Voice Competition in 1981, Johnson soon
found herself performing on the international stage in acclaimed roles that would eventually take her across five
continents. In her first televised opera, she appeared as Musetta in an Emmy-winning PBS production of La Boheme,
alongside Pavarotti. The two would later perform together in a live broadcast of the Pavarotti Plus Gala from Lincoln
Center.

Noted for her “dramatic soprano repertoire,” Johnson has performed at some of the most prestigious
music organizations in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Prague Opera House and Prague Festival,
Opera Bastille, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, the San Francisco Opera, the Montreal Opera, and Carnegie Hall.
She has held Artist in Residence positions with the Texas Tech School of Music (1997-1998) and the Santa Fe Opera.
Johnson co-founded the Taos Opera Institute and served as its artistic director for several years. Additionally,
she has held vocal teaching positions with McMurray University, the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz,
Austria, and, beginning in 2000, was a member of the faculty of Amarillo College.

Ginger Kerrick was born on November 28, 1969, in El Paso, Texas, and spent her youth there dreaming of a future career
in space and athletics. A knee injury early in her college years led her to focus full-time on her science education.
She transferred to Texas Tech with the help of scholarships and student job opportunities procured by Dr. Walter Borst
of the Physics Department. From Texas Tech Ginger earned her bachelor’s of science degree in 1991 and her master’s of
science degree in 1993, both in the field of physics. An internship with the Johnson Space Center got her foot in the door.
Her dogged determination to gain full-time employment with NASA proved successful, despite a hiring freeze and disqualification
from the astronaut interview process due to a health issue. Employed for over two decades with NASA, Ginger has held multiple
positions, most notably being selected as the first non-astronaut capsule communicator in 2001 and as a flight director
in 2005, making her the first Hispanic female to hold that position. Ginger continued her association with Texas Tech
through teaching in the STEM-MBA program in the Rawls College of Business and as a guest speaker in Kent Hance’s
senior seminar course. She was also the TTU commencement speaker in December 2010.

The accolades continue to pour in for the former Texas Tech graduate. She received the Texas
Executive Women’s 2011 Women on the Move award and in 2016 she was inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in the
area of STEM. Through her many speaking and teaching engagements Ginger serves as an inspiration to others
dreaming of a career in space exploration and science.

Anne Lynch grew up near Dell City on a cattle ranch in West Texas. As an Animal Science major,
she participated in Texas Tech’s Block and Bridle Club and Rodeo Club. While working in the horse barn of the Texas Tech Farm
Lynch became familiar with Happy V, then serving as the university’s animal mascot, and began riding him. By the end of her
junior year, Lynch auditioned for the role of the 13th Masked Rider, and, in 1974, became the first female chosen for
this honored position.

Although she grew up riding horses and was familiar with Happy V, her selection was met with skepticism.
In the minds of some it was assumed that women did not have the strength to handle the reins. Lynch had to convince football
coach Jim Carlin and Animal Science chair Dale Zinn that she could indeed ride. She proved capable, and received the mask
and cape. Reaction to a female Masked Rider was mixed but, in the end, many supported Lynch. She had a successful year
representing Texas Tech with dignity. Her proficiency in this role paved the way for future women to have the opportunity
to try out for the Masked Rider. Anne Lynch Hanson graduated from Tech in 1975. She lives in Dell City and markets
CL Ranch gypsum in Texas and New Mexico.

Jeannine McHaney is credited with establishing and growing the women’s athletic program at Texas Tech. She began her
career at the university in 1966 as an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
That same year she was appointed the Women’s Intramural Director and given a measly annual budget of $500 to run the program,
which was able to exist due in part to the women’s coaches contributing their time for free. In addition, Jeannine served
as the volleyball and gymnastics coach. With the enactment of Title IX in 1975, Jeannine was appointed as the first Women’s
Athletic Director and, during her 10-year term in that role, she grappled with issues such an inadequate funding and poor
facilities for the women’s athletic teams. When the men’s and women’s athletic departments were combined in 1985 she was
appointed as an assistant athletics director and would later be promoted in 1991 to associate director of athletics.
Over the course of her 28 years with Texas Tech, Jeannine was heavily involved and influential in women’s athletics in both
the Southwest Conference and the NCAA. Among her many recognitions was being named the 1993 Administrator of the Year
by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.

While she lost her battle with cancer in October of 1994, many reminders of the significant contributions
Jeannine has made at Texas Tech remain. The High Riders spirit organization created an award in her name and there is also
an endowed graduate scholarship named after her in the Department of Kinesiology and Sports Management.

In May of 2002 the Board of Regents approved naming part of the Hall of Honor section in west entrance
area the United Spirit Arena as the Jeannine McHaney Hall of Honor (with the other half being named after Polk Robinson).
A bronze sculpture of Jeannine was dedicated on January 17, 2004 and placed in the Hall of Honor. The plaque contains a
quote by Lady Raider Noel Johnson following Tech’s 1993 NCAA tournament championship which states “Any success in the past
or future of women’s athletics at Texas Tech is a result of Jeannine McHaney. Her courage and leadership will forever
be embedded in Texas Tech athletics.” The National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators awarded
McHaney posthumously in 2006 as a Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

Ophelia Powell-Malone holds a place in Texas Tech history as the first African-American to graduate with a
bachelor's degree. She transferred from Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, to attend Texas Tech shortly after
the college quietly integrated. A home economics major, Powell-Malone received her degree in 1964 and went on to become
a teacher in New Mexico. Later she worked as a dietitian at Langston University and in nursing homes in Lubbock and Houston.
Mentor Tech, a division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, chose Powell-Malone as one of two
trailblazing individuals to honor in the naming of their program, which was established in 2002.
(photo courtesy of Mentor Tech)

In 1969, Sunanda Mitra came to Texas Tech as the first official female researcher in the
Department of Electrical Engineering, conducting research in the area of thermonuclear research in collaboration
with professors Magne Kristiansen and Marion O. Hagler. She received her master’s degree in physics from Calcutta
University in 1957 and her doctoral degree in Physics in 1966 from Marburg University. During her long tenure at
Texas Tech Mitra has held various positions with Health Sciences Center, the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, and, beginning in 1988, became the founder and Director of the Computer Vision and Image Analysis
Laboratory.

From 1998-2001, she served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Electronic Imaging and continues
to conduct research in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, medical imaging and compression. In 2005,
Mitra achieved the double distinction of being the first woman in the field of engineering, as well as being the first
Asian woman, to be prompted the high rank of Horn Professor at Texas Tech.

Related collections within the University Archives and the Southwest Collection holdings:
Sunanda Mitra faculty file, 1984-1991

Marilyn Elizabeth Gutershloh Phelan was born on July 12, 1938 in Lubbock, Texas.
After attending Levelland High School she went on to receive her bachelor’s degree in political science
from Texas Tech in 1959. She then enrolled in law school at the University of Texas, where female students
comprised about 3% of the law program, and completed her degree in 1961 despite facing blatant gender
discrimination by law faculty and employers who did not approve of women in the profession. “It was irritating
that firms did not interview women. This was before the Civil Rights Act, and women did not have the equal
opportunities for employment as men did. We accepted the fact that we would be discriminated against. It did
not mean we didn’t like it, but there was little recourse,” Phelan recalled of the difficulties of trying to
find a job after graduating Law School. While at UT, she met fellow law classmate and West Texan, Harold Phelan.
The two married in 1960. From 1961-1966, the couple ran their own private law firm in Levelland and Marilyn
continued to battle gender discrimination, this time with clients who preferred having a male represent
them in legal matters.

In 1967, she shifted her focus to raising three young children and
also returned to Texas Tech
to acquire master and doctoral degrees in business administration. She received her CPA certificate in 1968,
started teaching as an instructor in the College of Business Administration in 1967, and was hired as a full-time
assistant professor in 1971. Phelan embraced academic life, becoming Associate Dean of the Graduate School from
1973-1977 and teaching in the Texas Tech School of Law as a tenured professor in 1974. From 1977-1984 she served
as General Counsel for the university, after which she returned to teaching full-time in the Law School as well
as the Museum Science program.

In 1979, Phelan, then the highest-ranking woman in Texas Tech administration, was named
Woman of the Year by Mortar Board and the Women in Communications, Inc. Over the next two decades she would author
and co-author sixteen books on tax law and nonprofits, museum law, and cultural property and natural heritage law.
In 2005, Phelan became the first woman from the School of Law to be promoted to the high rank of Horn Professor.

Marsha Sharp was born on August 31, 1952, and moved to Tulia, Texas, where she grew up playing three-on-three basketball.
She attended Wayland Baptist University and played guard for the Queen Bees for two years. During her junior year Sharp
began her coaching career when she took charge of the freshman team. After graduation Sharp stayed on as a graduate
assistant coach at Wayland for one season before earning her master’s degree from West Texas State University. She then
went on to Lockney High School as head coach of the Lady Longhorns, amassing a 126-63 record over six years.

In 1981 she joined Texas Tech University as an assistant coach and, during her tenure, became one
of the most celebrated coaches in the history of women’s college basketball. As head coach of the Lady Raiders from
1982 to 2006, Sharp elevated the women’s basketball program to national prominence. The Lady Raiders won eight conference
titles (Southwest Conference and Big 12), had ten Sweet 16 and four Elite 8 appearances, and won the national championship
in 1993. In all, Coach Sharp compiled a record of 572-189.

Her success was not limited to the game of basketball. Off the court she mentored her players to be
their best. Under her guidance Coach Sharp’s student-athletes achieved an impressive 97 percent graduation rate. The
Marsha Sharp Center for Student-Athletes, established in 2004, continues to provide student-athletes with academic
services.

Though she retired from coaching in 2006, Sharp’s legacy continues. She is very much involved in the
community. In her current position as Associate Athletic Director of Special Projects at Texas Tech, Sharp oversees the
development of the Fearless Champions Leadership Academy and the Marsha Sharp Leadership Circle. She also serves on the
boards of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, the Lifecare Community, the Sharp Academy/Lubbock Learning Difference Center, and the
Second Baptist Church. It is her commitment to excellence and giving back that has garnered her countless awards and
accolades over her career on and off the court.

Mary Jeanne van Appledorn was born October 2, 1927 in Holland, Michigan, to John and Elizabeth van Appledorn.
As a child, van Appledorn studied piano, as did her older sister Ruth. Following the death of her father in 1944, she
and her mother moved to Topeka, Kansas (where her sister was a music teacher at Alma College) for van Appledorn's senior
year of high school. Van Appledorn graduated from Topeka High School in 1945 as valedictorian. She then went on to study
both piano and theory at the University of Rochester's prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York,
where each year she was awarded the George Eastman Honorary Scholarship and in 1948 received her Bachelor of Music
with Distinction in piano. She subsequently received her Master of Music Degree (theory) from the Eastman School of Music
in 1950 and accepted a position at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in the fall of 1950.
She received her Ph.D. (music) from the Eastman School of Music in 1966.

As an educator, Dr. van Appledorn taught at Texas Tech University from 1950-2008. She taught a wide
range of courses during this time, from undergraduate music theory to graduate composition courses. Dr. van Appledorn
served as chairman of the Division of Music Literature and Theory (1950-1968) in the school of music, and played an
important role in the development of the curriculum of the undergraduate and graduate music degrees, alongside Chairman
of the School of Music, Gene Hemmle. She also founded and served as chairman of the annual Symposium of Contemporary Music
at Texas Tech (1951-1981), and obtained the commission of many new works by renowned composers such as Dr. Howard Hanson
(Streams in the Desert, 1969). In 1989 she was promoted to the high rank of Horn Professor.

Margaret Watson Weeks was born on February 5, 1886, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. She began her career
teaching grade school in Canada and the United States and received her B.S. in home economics education and M.S.
degrees in nutrition from Columbia University in 1922 and 1925 respectively. During the formative years of the Texas Tech,
Weeks served as the Dean of the Home Economics Department from 1925-1953.

Her many contributions included helping to organize the Home Economics Club in 1925; establishing the
Home Economics Loan Fund; helping to form the Double Key Honor Society in 1930; and the first Texas chapter of the
Phi Upsilon Omicron National Honor Society in 1938. With Mary Woodward Doak, Weeks inaugurated the Women’s Recognition
Service in 1932 which continued until 1947. She was also responsible for successfully orchestrating the construction
of an addition to the Home Economics Building in 1952 and a women’s dormitory built in 1958 was named after her
as well.

A librarian, educator and historian, Elizabeth Howard West served as the first librarian at Texas
Technological College in 1925 and founded the Lubbock branch of the American Association of University Women (1926).
Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, on March 27, 1873, West received a degree from the Industrial Institute and College at
Columbus, Mississippi. She taught in the public schools before moving to Texas in 1895. She received both her bachelor's
and master's degrees from the University of Texas in 1901. She began her library training in 1905 and became a
cataloger at the Texas State Library in 1906. West also worked as an assistant at the Library of Congress, was the Texas
State Library archivist (1911-1915), the director of the San Antonio Library (1915-1918), and elected as State
Librarian in 1918, making her the first woman department head in the Texas state government.

West had actively pursued research in Spanish and Mexican archives, and from 1930 to 1932 worked as a
Library of Congress research assistant on the European Historical Mission. She published frequent articles in the
Southwestern Historical Quarterly and the American Historical Review. She was a charter member of the
Texas State Library Association and served as its president from 1914 to 1916. She also helped to found the Southwestern
Library Association and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma, Daughters of the American Revolution and the
Philosophical Society of Texas. West also directed the Southwestern Library Association's Regional Literature Program
in Texas. She retired as college librarian at Texas Tech in 1942 and then worked as a historical research assistant for
the Tech history department until 1947. Following a heart attack, West completely retired and moved to Pensacola,
Florida, where she died on January 4, 1948.

Margaret Eileen "Peg" Wilson received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of
Arkansas and her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She joined the Department of Health and Physical Education at
Texas Tech University in 1965 following several years of teaching at both the secondary and college level in the
state of Arkansas. Her administrative duties at Texas Tech included serving as Department Chair from 1967-1976
and as Coordinator of the Physical Education Division from 1976-1983.

Wilson also served as President of the Texas Tech Faculty Senate from 1978-1979 and again
from 1985-1986. During her time in the faculty senate, she worked to resolve conflict between President Lauro
Cavazos and Texas Tech faculty over controversial tenure policies. As one of the pioneers in Texas Tech women's athletics,
Wilson worked to obtain equal resources for women athletes. She was an active member of TAHPERD (Texas Association
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance). Wilson retired from Texas Tech University in 1990.

Mina Marie Wolf was born on August 14, 1910, at Sagerton, Texas, and attended public schools in Stamford, Texas,
from 1920-1929. From 1929-1932, she attended the newly established Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas,
from which she received her B.A. in chemistry in 1932. While in graduate school at the University of Texas Mina was
discouraged from pursuing a career as a chemist by a faculty member due to the difficulty of finding jobs in that field
for a female. She returned to Texas Tech in 1935 to get her M.S. in Foods and Nutrition and served as an instructor for a
semester. She returned to Texas Tech in 1940 to be an associate professor in the foods and nutrition department of Home
Economics and received her Ph.D. in Nutrition and chemistry from Columbia University in 1942.

Mina married Arch Lamb in 1941 and together the couple left a lasting impression on Texas Tech history
through their long standing support for the college and its students. Dr. Mina Lamb was a member of numerous
professional and local campus organizations. During the war years she taught numerous Red Cross nutrition and canteen
courses as well as served on the Food Ration Board in Lubbock. Before her retirement from Texas Tech, Dr. Lamb had
been honored as a Piper Professor in 1965 and had donated $10,000 towards funding a new laboratory for assessment of
nutritional status in humans. In an interview in 1990, she stated that her proudest accomplishment was establishing the
federally funded Women, Infants and Children (WIC) supplemental food program at the Lubbock Children’s Health Clinic
where she had volunteered for 18 years as a teacher of nutrition.